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countyhood en · NOUN

Etymology

From county + -hood.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The state of being a county.
    • In the years following countyhood, the court levied taxes, set salaries for county officials, provided for public safety and regulated morals. 1996, Yolanda Reed, Rick Gregory, Robertson Co, TN, page 25:
    • The proposers of countyhood for the Bronx are either unintelligent or insincere when they say that the autonomy of that borough would separate it from Tammany Hall. 1911 December 8, “Countyhood for the Bronx”, in The New York Times: